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Rob Mee | CEO, Founder |
Rob began his software career in an artificial intelligence laboratory in Tokyo, writing natural language translation systems in Lisp. His early interest in languages, both natural and artificial, led him to follow the evolution of software engineering into object orientated systems and databases, Smalltalk development, and Agile methodologies. Rob co-founded Pivotal with the goal of providing clients a combination of hard core software engineering techniques and flexible methods as an integrated, disciplined approach to software development. As Pivotal's CEO, Rob has grown the company into a major provider of agile enablement services for software development organizations. He also provides the vision for Pivotal's rapidly expanding product development and start-up bootstrapping practice. Rob graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.
Sherry Erskine | CFO, Founder |
From her first job in environmental science at the U.S. Geological Survey, Sherry parlayed an interest in geographical information systems into a career in software. There, her interests turned to systems analysis, project management and new or unconventional forms of software development and delivery. As a co-founder of Pivotal, Sherry ensured that the company's consulting and development services maintained a sharp focus on the customer, applying the emerging discipline of agile methods to provide greater predictability and transparency for the user. As Pivotal has evolved, Sherry has taken on the roles of CFO and COO, working with Rob and the company's principals to guide the firm through a period of rapid growth. Sherry earned her degrees from Stanford University.
Edward Hieatt | Principal |
Edward has coached teams in a wide variety of business and technical domains, including complex enterprise software and some of the world's largest auction and search websites. Edward has deep experience with object-orientated techniques and is highly proficient in the modeling and design of large-scale business systems. Using his extensive web development knowledge and relentless focus on developer testing practices, he enjoys working with teams to deliver quality software for high-volume websites. Edward is the author of JsUnit, the popular open-source unit testing tool for JavaScript. He has made numerous contributions to agile and Extreme Programming literature. Edward holds a degree in Mathematics from Oxford University, England. Edward has a blog at edward.blogs.pivotallabs.com.
Ian McFarland | VP Technology, Principal |
Ian is one of the true old hands of Java development. He has been working with Java since version 1.0a2, and actually wrote the first client-server Java application ever: a demo seating reservation system used for the Java product announcement at SunWorld in 1995. He is the author of Mastering Tomcat Development, published by J. Wiley and Sons, and has written articles for Java Developer's Journal, Developer.com, and the Java Developer Connection. He served as Java Evangelist for Symantec Visual Cafe, and led the engineering team at Friendster as it grew from 120,000 users to 3 Million users in 6 months. At Pivotal Labs, Ian has displayed his versatility as an architect, project lead, engagement manager, and web technology expert. He is a frequent trainer and speaker on agile practices.
Dan Podsedly | Principal |
Dan has been designing and implementing complex, large-scale applications using object-oriented technologies for over twelve years, and has been a practitioner and proponent of Agile methods since the earliest days of Extreme Programming. He has led projects in a broad range of industries including logistics, finance, investment banking, and e-commerce. Dan is an experienced coach, and enjoys mentoring teams in areas such as test-driven development, domain model design, and refactoring. Recently, Dan has led a team of Pivots and client engineers in the co-development of a suite of critical systems for one of the world's largest e-commerce companies. Through the grassroots adoption of agile practices, he's been instrumental in creating an extremely productive development organization that continues to deliver high quality applications on a regular basis.
Christian Sepulveda | VP Business Development, Principal |
Christian was Vice President of Engineering of Nominum, a leading provider of industry-leading network naming and addressing solutions, from 2003-2005. Before joining Nominum, Christian was co-founder of the GaiaCom Corporation, a New York based consulting and software development firm. He has worked in a diverse set of industries, from finance to fashion, on both commercial software and internal IT applications. Christian holds a degree in Computer Science from Harvard University. Chris has a blog at chris.blogs.pivotallabs.com.
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